Document and analyze geotechnical and structural deformations of failed levee sections that occurred during Hurricane Katrina and that led to the flooding of New Orleans.
Description
United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientists: Rob Kayen, Brian Collins. Terrestrial LIDAR data (LIDAR) of field activity N-O1-05-LA in New Orleans, Louisiana from 10/09/2005 to 10/14/2005
Location
Louisiana
Summary
Field observations of failure modes and 144 individual terrestrial lidar scans, each containing several million data points
Info derived
Field observations and topographic data
Comments
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Rob Kayen (USGS) - Chief Scientist
Brian Collins (UC Berkeley, USGS) - Civil Engineer
Non USGS data manager = Brian Collins